(VIRTUAL) How are we listening, now? A live conversation with SpokenWeb

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The sounds of our cities, our classrooms, our homes, and our methods of communication have all changed since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first weeks of the pandemic, Concordia researchers Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod (co-editors of CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event) started thinking about our transitioning world in terms of the changes in our sonic environments. As researchers with the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership, Camlot and McLeod co-produced “How are we listening, now? Signal, Noise, Silence” for the SpokenWeb podcast series in order to document our reactions to the changes in what and how we hear the world around us, and each other, during this time of social distancing and self-isolation.

Now that three months have passed, 4TH SPACE invites you to join Camlot, McLeod, and special guests from across Concordia and beyond in a live conversation moderated by Aphrodite Salas that will revisit the creation of this podcast, and the question that prompted its production: How are we listening, now? Join the conversation on June 18 at 12:00 p.m by registering on Zoom or following along on their Facebook page. How will you listen?

Jason Camlot is professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. Katherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Exploring the production of culture through and outside of the archives that preserve and produce CanLit as an entity, CanLit Across Media asserts that CanLit arises from acts of archival, critical, and creative analysis. Each chapter investigates, challenges, and provokes this premise by examining methods of "unarchiving" Canadian and Indigenous literary texts and events from the 1950s to the present. Engaging with a remediated archive, or "unarchiving," allows the authors and editors to uncover how the materials that document past acts of literary production are transformed into new forms and experiences in the present. The chapters consider literature and literary events that occurred before live audiences or were broadcast, and that are now recorded in print publications and documents, drawings, photographs, flat disc records, magnetic tape, film, videotape, and digitized files.